Awards
- Iron Cross (1914)
- 2nd Class (14 February 1918)
- 1st Class (15 March 1922)
- Friedrich-August-Kreuz 2nd Class (14 February 1918)
- U-boat War Badge (20 November 1926)
- Wehrmacht Long Service Award
- 4th to 2nd Class (2 October 1936)
- Komtur of the Order of the Crown of Italy (13 December 1937)
- Sudetenland Medal (22 May 1939)(2 October 1936)
- Memel Medal (26 October 1939)(2 October 1936)
- 1st Class (11 February 1939)
- Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (23 February 1940)
- 1st Class (14 April 1940)
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 18 January 1941 as Kapitän zur See and commander of heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper
- High Seas Fleet Badge (16 February 1942)
- Officer of the Order of the Crown of Romania (15 January 1943)
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